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Palisades Mall Restaurant Concludes Autism Speaks Fundraiser Monday

Bravo!, a restaurant in the Palisades Mall, will donate 10 percent of proceeds from 4 p.m. to close Monday to Autism Speaks, the 10th and final week it has done so.

Palisades Mall Restaurant Bravo! will hold the final night of a 10-week fundraiser to support Autism Speaks from 4 p.m. to close Monday, Oct. 11

Bravo! will donate 10 percent of proceeds from those hours support Team Giant Leaps OT, which will participate in hte 2011 Greater Hudson Valley Walk Now for Autism Speaks Oct. 15 at the Rockland Community College Field House in Suffern.

Bravo!'s participation grew out of a meeting between the restaurant's general manager, Ed Sassone, and customer Tammy Belcher, a team captain and committee member from Giant Leaps. Sassone has a daugther on the autistic spectrum.

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For more information or to register for the Greater Hudson Valley Walk Now For Austism Speaks, go to www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/greaterhudsonvalley.

To date, the walk has $59,349 in pledged donations. Giant Leaps OT is among the top fundraising teams along with Prudential Joyce Realty in Pearl River and Team Nanuet.

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